Art New England Struggles to Survive

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For over 40 years Art New England has been the regions premier magazine covering visual and performing arts. However, like many other publications, it has not managed to fully recover from the impact of COVID. I have been a contributor to the magazine since it’s inception in 1980 when as a young artist I was proud to have my work featured on the cover and in an interview with my dear friend, Boston artist Lois Tarlow. Since then my work appeared periodically and for the last decade or so I’ve been a contributing writer. Today Art New England is struggling to survive. Primarily a subscription-based print publication, it has been arriving over two months late in peoples mailboxes. While it is still beautifully designed and it’s striking covers are a joy to see, most of the announcements, reviews and previews are out of date by the time they are read. Despite that I continue to write for them out of respect for their legacy and in hopes that they will survive. In the current Sept/October issue you can read my profile of Vermont artist Anna Dibble, my preview of the always exciting Art at the Kent, and coverage of the many recent awards honoring Vermont artists. I hope you will subscribe.

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Cynthia Close

Armed with an MFA from Boston University Cynthia plowed her way through several productive careers in the arts including instructor in drawing and painting, Dean of Admissions at The Art Institute of Boston, founder of ARTWORKS Consulting, and president of Documentary Educational Resources - a nonprofit film distribution company. She now claims to be a writer.

In addition…
To support this claim, she is a contributing editor for Documentary Magazine and writes regularly about art, cinema, and culture for, Artist’s Magazine, Art & Object, Pastel Magazine, Art New England, Vermont Woman, and formerly for Professional Artist Magazine. Her creative non-fiction appeared in the 2014, 2016, and 2017 anthology The Best of the Burlington Writers Workshop. Her essays have been published in various literary journals including 34th Parallel, Across the Margin, Adelaide, Agni, Bacopa Literary Review, The Black and White Anthology, Blood and Bourbon, The Brooklyn Film Arts nonfiction prize finalist, From Whispers to Roars, The Longridge Review, Montana Mouthful, Orson’s Review, The Seasons of Our Lives, Swallow Press, The Twisted Vine, Wagon Bridge Press, and The Woven Tales Press, among others. She has read publicly at many venues including the Cornelia Street Café in NYC. She was the inaugural art editor for the literary and art journal Mud Season Review launched in 2014.